dejected_warp_core
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
As one of the horde of neurodivergent folks that love Hank’s content, Ikind of need it this way. Chris Boden is another one. Long, still, static shots, just punch me right in the attention span and are hard to get through. It takes way more effort than the occasional jump-cut to pull off.
- Comment on Electricity Consumption 1 week ago:
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 1 week ago:
Good days are in short supply right now. Why you do this?
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 2 weeks ago:
Only if both spouses were previously married, and you ask first. With the right crowd, that’s a howler.
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
Jebus that’s awful. OpenAI took away his friend.
- Comment on Help. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, cringy nomenclature aside, this is just porn that got a little too real. Some people are into the narrative, after all.
To me the story begins and ends with some user that thinks the LLM sounds a little too life-like. Play with these things enough, and they’ll crawl out of the uncanny valley a bit from time to time. Trick is: that’s all in your head. Yeah, it might screw up your goon session and break the role-play a bit, but it’s not about to go all SkyNet on you.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I’m just as mystified as you.
The only time I interact with the service is when I’m sent a link to a cool band/song and I wind up on the site. “Oh, this again.” I really have zero concept of fandom for something like this.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 weeks ago:
Even better, id be interested to see what happens in a state with castle doctrine.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts that they know who and who doesn’t have registered firearms. They are cherry-picking easy targets right now, and are going to avoid a gunfight if they can help it.
- Comment on Yeasty 3 weeks ago:
Yeast is anaerobic, meaning that it doesn’t need access to air to metabolize sugars into CO2. So it’s not gonna stop expanding once down the drain. Add to that the very sticky dough surrounding it, and you basically have a recipe ideal for clogging a sewer drain.
- Comment on Yeasty 3 weeks ago:
PSA: Kidding aside, never do this.
- Comment on Yeasty 3 weeks ago:
These look like a props from a Troma film.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
And I took no offense: we’re good! And yes, these events are front-row seats for epic people-watching. The logistics make no sense, the vibes are sheer chaos, nobody is really prepared to take care of themselves for a few days straight, and these nightcrawlers just bring the strange in droves. it’s wonderful.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much. I mean, we all need space and time to be stupid, now and again.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 4 weeks ago:
These animals are betting on shifting baselines with this crap. They seek to train a whole generation of consumers that owning anything is pointless fiction.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. It’s Eastern Europe. That’s like free bus passes for UK residents if they complain about the weather.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 4 weeks ago:
Please tell me that’s all satire.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 4 weeks ago:
An effective way to boycott this terrible activity is to take to the second-hand market wherever possible. Thrift stores, FB marketplace (yuck), craigslist, and old-fashioned yard sales. Old exercise equipment is everywhere. Engage with makers and support networks to repair and maintain that stuff.
Keep the flow of money out of the hands of these corporations that just want to lease you things.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 4 weeks ago:
$20,000 bounty to un-fuckulate this mess: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zayHD4kfcA
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
I think it all starts with asking the crowd. Once people catch on that’s something we all do, collectively, moving those discussions to a community is the next natural step.
- Comment on Something to think about 4 weeks ago:
Dozing off in my tent at a burn. Recalling the warm hugs and conversation from other partygoers tripping the light fantastic. My belly full of the wonderful food people brought just to share. The greasy bass of airport-noise-levels of dubstep lulling me to sleep.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
On the home-gamer gameplay side, this is a solid list. On the technology side, I think there’s even more that makes sense for a curated museum tour. There were big leaps made in arcade tech through the 80’s and 90’s that were pushing all manner of graphics and sound, head-and-shoulders above the previous generation.
Sega’s “super scaler” boards come to mind, allowing for games like Hang-on, Outrun, and After Burner. Digitized sound samples started with Sinistar and Tempest. Dragon’s Lair amazed everyone with an interactive LaserDisc experience. There were also notable forays into AR with Time Traveler, and VR with Virutality. Lastly, we have the fully-enclosed and immersive cockpit of early Battletech simulators.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
sharp exhale You’re probably right.
Is there some version of Occam’s Razor where “enshitification” is the most likely answer?
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. This implementation makes no sense. Unless the logos are animated, need to change frequently, or supposed to show advertising (I hope not), a backlit plastic label would do the same job just fine. In fact, that has done the same job for decades at this point.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 weeks ago:
Bad news is “bios crash” has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 weeks ago:
Already done: Johnny English
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 weeks ago:
Okay, but only if Pauly Shore gets to be Q.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 5 weeks ago:
This, right here. It’s like Nixon’s “war on drugs” that went on, and on, and on… The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 5 weeks ago:
You are not kidding. I have some experience with startup stock options and… it’s not pretty.
Before anyone retorts with remarks about “phantom stock” and other similar offers, I want you to do some math.
Figure out what the ‘strike price’ of that stock is likely to be when it matures, and calculate what the payout will be. Then figure out capital gains tax and subtract that. Divide what’s left over by the amount of unpaid overtime (hours in excess of 40 a week) you’re going to put in for the maturation window. Lastly, compare these figures to other testimonials in your field, and also, look up typical yearly bonus figures for more mature companies. You’re going to see that it’s not a lot of cash for the extra time, that it’s nowhere near your base pay rate, and more established companies are going to do a better job of compensating folks for less effort. You may even find that with a 996 grind-set, it might pay out less than taking a second job at retail.
I can also warn you that if the company sells instead of going IPO, you may get a much smaller payout than all that. I was in a situation where they threw the advertised strike price in the trash, and negotiated a sale of everyone’s stock to the buying company for much, much less.
